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Idaho USA-1955: Girl Playing with Donkey by Roadside

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  • Year1955
  • Decade1950s
  • LocationIdaho, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD

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Girl Playing with Donkey by Roadside — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Idaho, USA, in 1955, showing a young girl joyfully interacting with a donkey by the roadside in a rural setting. The clip features a dark-colored donkey standing near a classic car on a gravel path, with a white horse visible in a distant field. The footage has a distinct blue-purple color cast and heavy film grain, characteristic of 8mm home movies from the era. The girl's laughter and playful gestures are captured in close-up, conveying a sense of carefree nostalgia. The scene is framed by the natural borders of the film, enhancing its authentic, archival quality.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
122626576

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

  • People visible: Yes
  • Minors visible: No
  • Logos / trademarks: No
  • Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel
Reel record not linked for this clip
Date
1955 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location
Idaho, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route
Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • woman
  • donkey
  • grass
  • pasture
  • car
  • girl
  • plays
  • animal
  • roadside
  • rural
  • area
  • joy
  • holidays
  • idaho USA
  • 1955
  • 1955 home movie footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • girl playing with donkey
  • rural roadside scene
  • classic car background
  • 8mm film grain
  • blue tinted footage
  • archival family footage
  • vintage Super 8
  • 1950s nostalgia
  • donkey in field
  • child laughter
  • old film footage
  • retro home movie
  • 8mm film
  • Americana nostalgia
  • vintage animal footage
  • 8mm home movie
  • vintage family memory

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1950s Idaho home-movie requests needing rural roadside life, domestic travel, and informal human-animal interaction for documentary or museum edits.
Period detail
The roadside setting, open pasture, and partially visible mid-century car may show rural U.S. travel and farm-edge landscapes in the 1950s.
Home-movie behavior
The value is in the unstaged play as a young female figure leans toward and laughs near a donkey at close range.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a dark donkey, a laughing face, a reaching hand, a roadside or gravel surface, a car, dry grassland, and a distant light-colored horse.
Film character
The 8mm scan carries heavy grain, blue-purple color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure, and rounded frame edges from the original home-movie material.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, rural cutaway, animal insert, or transition into family travel and countryside sequences.
Historical context
The clip gives a small social glimpse of informal roadside recreation and animal contact in a rural Idaho setting without asserting a specific occasion.
Research note
People and a clearly visible face require likeness review, while the apparent vehicle and roadside setting should be checked separately from copyright status.
Research search match
Search matches include 1950s Idaho 8mm home movie, rural roadside donkey, girl with animal, pasture horse, family travel footage, and vintage countryside scene.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1955 Idaho material, and then broader rural animal or roadside home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Dark donkey near a roadside in rural Idaho, with part of a mid-century car visible behind it in 1955 home-movie footage.
A donkey stands near the roadside with a car passing or parked behind it.
A young female figure laughs close to the camera while leaning near a dark donkey in rural 1950s Idaho footage.
A laughing face appears at close range beside the donkey.
A hand reaches toward the donkey during a close roadside interaction in Idaho 8mm home-movie footage from 1955.
A person reaches toward the donkey during a playful close-up moment.
A light-colored horse stands in a wide rural Idaho pasture, seen from a distance in 1955 8mm home-movie footage.
A light-colored horse stands alone in the open field.

Visually Similar Clips

← Previous in archiveIdaho USA-1955: Man and Woman Watching Burro Walk on Rural Road in IdahoNext in archive →Idaho USA-1955: Two White Horses Roaming in Grassy Field
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